Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) IJ. Wijnands
Request for Comments: 6512 E. Rosen
Category: Standards Track Cisco Systems
ISSN: 2070-1721 M. Napierala
AT&T
N. Leymann
Deutsche Telekom
February 2012
Using Multipoint LDP When the Backbone Has No Route to the Root
Abstract
The control protocol used for constructing Point-to-Multipoint and
Multipoint-to-Multipoint Label Switched Paths ("MP LSPs") contains a
field that identifies the address of a "root node". Intermediate
nodes are expected to be able to look up that address in their
routing tables. However, this is not possible if the route to the
root node is a BGP route and the intermediate nodes are part of a
BGP-free core. This document specifies procedures that enable an MP
LSP to be constructed through a BGP-free core. In these procedures,
the root node address is temporarily replaced by an address that is
known to the intermediate nodes and is on the path to the true root
node.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................3
2. The Recursive Opaque Value ......................................5
2.1. Encoding ...................................................5
2.2. Procedures .................................................5
3. The VPN-Recursive Opaque Value ..................................6
3.1. Encoding ...................................................6
3.2. Procedures .................................................7
3.2.1. Non-Segmented Inter-AS P-Tunnels ....................7
3.2.2. Limited Carrier's Carrier Function ..................9
4. IANA Considerations ............................................10
5. Security Considerations ........................................10
6. Acknowledgments ................................................10
7. References .....................................................11
7.1. Normative References ......................................11
7.2. Informative References ....................................11
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1. Introduction
The document [mLDP] extends LDP [LDP] to support multipoint Label
Switched Paths. These extensions are known as "Multipoint LDP", or
more simply, as "mLDP". [mLDP] defines several LDP Forwarding
Equivalence Class (FEC) element encodings: "Point-to-Multipoint"
(P2MP), "Multipoint-to-Multipoint (MP2MP) Upstream", and "MP2MP
Downstream".
The encoding for these three FEC elements, as defined in [mLDP], is
shown in Figure 1.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Address Family | Address Length|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
~ Root Node Address ~